Monday, December 21, 2009

Murphy's Lesser Known Dictums...

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

The things that come to those who wait will be the things left by those who got there first.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.

A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

When you go into court, you are putting yourself In the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.



Thanks to Ann.

7 comments:

  1. You made me laugh, something I really needed to do.

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  2. I'm with Lisa...thanks for that, Mimi and Ann!

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  3. Oh, those are really good!

    That 50-50 rule sounds like something Yogi Berra would say.

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  4. Don't forget:

    The benefits of simple origami are two-fold…

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  5. I beg to differ on the shin bone one. Early the other morning (about 4:30) I got called to the hospital. I had woken up with thoughts about my mother and managed to hear the phone ring. In my wild dash to answer it I rammed my thigh into the corner of a small table. I now have a huge beautiful bruise and bump.

    I have also been know to stub my toes on the bed post in my wild dashes (maybe one of these days I will place a phone by my bed so I don't have to dash) but I don't ever remember banging my shin bone.

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  6. These are wonderful. Thanks for the good laugh.

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  7. DP, is origami what you do to pass the time in the school breaks?

    Anne Marie, shall I add thighs and toes to the post? Since I walk around in socks in my house, my toes are likely to get more banged up than my shins - and that's in daylight.

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